Saturday, November 7, 2015

Soft Release Sunday

We begin with a picture of my project in it's current state (minus the new _gnu binaries).

The binary files in the SDK folder represent pre-release version of the Nitro Entertainment System.

Due to the nature of cross platform distribution we are still learning the ropes of best practise for binaries.

The targets in order of previous release schedule are:

Raspberry Pi

Apple Mac

Windows 7/10

GNU Linux

Some details of each of the platforms follows beginning with the star of the show our favourite kit set computer from the Kingdom of the U the Raspberry Pi.

Raspberry Pi

This budget computer is in space. in DIY arcade machines, on my desk in quantity, decorating shelves of millions of good intentioned bargain shoppers, and most importantly in the minds of millions of school aged creators tasked with exploring the new frontiers of the digital age and the internet of t.

Unlike the other platforms git-lfs is not required for Pi to use initial drop. The binaries have been tested on both Wheezy and Jessie (Raspbian Debian release names) and using the SDK should be a simple matter of clone and run including the use of a prebuilt monkey code compiler and a suite of tests demonstrating Nitro SDK performance with various languages.

The Nitro SDK does require C++11 which for Pi means installing g++-4.9 toolchain.